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POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Ecological role of the enigmatic marine alveolates in the arctic marine ecosystem

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Awarded: NOK 33,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Microbial eukaryote key spec. in the arct. mar. ecos.:who are they, what is their funct. and how do they interact with each oth and the env

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Awarded: NOK 31,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

The provenance, composition and fate of organic carbon on an Arctic glacier

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Awarded: NOK 46,092

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geomorphological Mapping of Quaternary Landforms and Sediments for Geohazard Assessment in Selected Cultural Heritage Sites in Svalbard

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Awarded: NOK 22,592

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Circadian rhythms of Arctic zooplankton from polar twilight to polar night; patterns, processes, and ecosystem implications (CircA)

CircA er et prosjekt som jobber med døgnmigrasjoner av arktisk dyreplankton (frittlevende dyr i vannmassene). Slike døgnmigrasjoner er kjent fra alle verdens hav og innsjøer, og er en prosess styrt av lys; små organismer svømmer opp i de øvre vannlag for å kunne spise i ly av mørket og uten fare ...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Glacier surges: controls, processes, distributions

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Awarded: NOK 40,019

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

SIOS-PP-Svalbard Inte Artic Eart Ob Sy

Etabl.partn.3 - UNIS

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Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Svalbard

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

High Arctic gravity waves and their impact on middle atmospheric circulation and temperature

Prosjektets mål var å karakterisere tyngdebølger observert i mesosfæren ca 90 km over Svalbard og prøve å finne en sammenheng mellom tyngdebølgene og variasjoner i temperatur og vind i mesosfæren. På Kjell Henriksen Observatoriet (KHO) utenfor Longyearbyen på Svalbard, finns verdens største samli...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Avian Vectors of Invertebrate faunas.

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Infrastrukturmidler for deltakelse i SIOS

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Awarded: NOK 0.86 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Svalbard

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Geological input to Carbon storage: from outcrop to simulator

Prosjektet "GeC - Geological input to Carbon storage: from outcrop to simulator" har fokusert på hvordan CO2 oppfører seg i undergrunnen. Vi har benyttet informasjon fra Longyearbyen CO2 lab som det viktigste datagrunnlaget. Geologiske variabler som sedimentær heterogenitet, sprekker og forkastni...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

PEA-Puccinellia in the European Arctic -Who is who, who is where, and why?

Arctic plants are rather recent (Late Tertiary-Pleistocene) immigrants or recently evolved. Two major processes in this evolution seem to have been hybridization and polyploidization, leading to complex relation patterns, and range of intermediate variant s between species. Thus, to untangle the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Terrestrial Invertebrate Fauna of Svalbard Workshop

? Build personal acquaintances between scientists working at disparate institutions. ? Coordinate future invertebrate research. ? Visit to the research facilities available at the Svalbard Science Centre and in Barentsburg. A briefing on the facilities in Ny-Ålesund will also be presented. ?...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian and Russian Upper Atmosphere Co-operation On Svalbard part 2

The scientific objectives as stated by NORUSCA including multi-site* spectral observations of aurora and airglow, morphology and temporal dynamics in context of ionospheric convection, and real time exchange of data during radar and rocket campaigns are a ll items that will be addressed by this a...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Study of non-linear phenomena in the polar ionosphere induced by the SPEAR heating facility

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Awarded: NOK 0.72 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

The influence of climate change on distribution and deposition processes for persistent organic pollutants on Svalbard

Based upon an initiative of an already ongoing scientific exchange and research program (NorthPOP: 185104/S50) a research project is planned to foster and harmonize the scientific co-operation between the Russian and Norwegian research activities in envir onmental chemistry on Svalbard. As priori...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geoscientific permafrost collaboration between Svalbard/Norway and Alaska

One primary research aim is to compare the modern day permafrost conditions in terms of the ground thermal state, the stock of carbon and nitrogen, the potential for greenhouse gas production, the rates of permafrost land formation in the maritime arctic in Svalbard and Norway with the continent...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Coordination and integration of Norwegian and Russian marine research activities on Svalbard (CoNoR)

In close cooperation with Svalbard Science Forum (SSF), we propose to organize two series of symposia, one in Svalbard and one in St Petersburg to promote, coordinate and integrate planned and ongoing Norwegian and Russian research activities on Svalbard in selected research fields. We focus on ...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Infrastructure for space physics related research on Svalbard.

Svalbard har en unik geografisk plassering for rom-relaterte studier, og muliggjør både direkte og proxy studier av hvordan partikler fra solen påvirker vårt nære verdensrom. Universitetssenteret på Svalbard (UNIS) eier og drifter to store forskningsinstallasjoner for studier av prosesser i den ø...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2022

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Physical-mechanical properties of sea ice and influence of ice cover on hydrology of Svalbard fjords

The project is related to the development of network cooperation between Norwegian and Russian institutes in the field of sea ice research. The project contributes to the development of research infrastructure for the study of sea ice properties in the fi eld and laboratory conditions. We plan to...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

SPEAR - a high power ionospheric modification facility for Svalbard

SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar) is a new 25 MNOK multi-purpose facility that exploits high power radio technology in a completely new way. It is a ground-based HF radar with the capability of artificially modifying the upper atmosphere, a t different altitudes, in a controlled ma...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Svalbard

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Norsk-Indisk bilateralt samarbeid - Stipendordning for indiske Ph.D.-studenter ved UNIS på Svalbard

Teena Chauhan: Late Weichselian ice-sheet dynamics and deglaciation history of the northern and eastern Svalbard margins This PhD project investigates the glacial history and palaeo-oceanography of poorly known northern and eastern Svalbard margins. Sediment cores from the southern Yermak Platea...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Svalbard

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Third European Permafrost Conference 2010 in Svalbard

We aim to be able to host the Third European Conference on Permafrost, EUCOP III in 2010 in Svalbard at UNIS. EUCOP have been held twice before in Europe outside the Arctic, but we want to focus on the European permafrost in the Arctic, by arranging this conference in Svalbard, where during the I...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Svalbard

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Arctic Shelf Water Processes

In a future climate scenario with no summer sea ice and perennial ice cover, we believe that the Arctic shelves will become the most important ventilation areas with AW as source water. Our data from both warm and cold Arctic shelves around Svalbard and i n the Barents Sea will hence be a perfect...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Svalbard

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the high North and North-Western Russia

The aim of the proposed initiative is to develop a mutual scientific exchange program within environmental chemistry based upon transfer of scientific knowledge, MSc, PhD students and personnel. The main activity will be medium-term research visits (3-12 months; 6 months in average) of M.Sc., Ph....

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Svalbard

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Det internasjonale polaråret (IPY) - satsing mot høyere utdanning

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Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Svalbard

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

PROEM - Plasma-physics Research using Optics, EISCAT and Modelling

Polar cap plasma patches are localized regions of high density plasma, seen drifting in an anti-sunward direction over the polar cap. They are seen moving poleward into the polar cap on the dayside, moving across the central polar cap, and emerging from t he polar cap into the nightside auroral o...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Ny-Ålesund symposium 20.-22. august 2007 - The Changing Arctic: Global Climate Change - The Need for Action-

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Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Svalbard

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic marginal ice zones (MIZ)

This project will investigate how increased light intensities, due to reduced ice concentrations and ice extent, affect timing, quantity and quality of primary and secondary production in the Arctic marginal ice zone (MIZ). The MIZ is the key productive a rea of Arctic shelf seas. The ongoing war...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard

The key goal of TSP NORWAY will be to develop a spatially distributed set of observations on present status of permafrost temperatures, active layer thicknesses and periglacial activity in Svalbard and Norway. Two new boreholes will be drilled and equippe d giving new information on permafrost te...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard